St. Paul daily globe., 1887-08-15
THE BIG LABOR MEETING.
Frank II. Fogg, Of Lansing, Mich,
Addresses Large Audience at
Harmonic Hall, Minneapolis.
Abstracts of Sermons Delivered by Some
Able and Well Known Ministers to
Their Congregations.
a Queer Complication About Getting
Possession of Saloon Site---The
General Local Grist.

ture of Frank NJ. Fogg, of Lansing,
Mich, was made up about evenly OF
ladies and gentlemen, and it is but fair
to state that the ladies appeared as
deeply interested as the gentlemen. 1t
was after o'clock when A. II. Mitchell
was called to preside over the meeting.
He made a few Introductory remarks
and introduced Mr.. Fogg, who put i'll an
appearance after some little de
Law. The speaker of the evening
was roundly cheered as he stepped
forward and addressed the chairman.
He said he had brought with him a
Bible. and he proposed to give the audi
ence a little gospel such as was delly-
cred in Galilee 1,S00 years ago. And L
want to say right here, said he, III the
press is going to report us | want it to
report us correctly. and if the reporters
can only give us little space let them
give what they do give correctly" The
speaker then remarked that he was sell
dom reported correctly. Boys, said
he. addressing the audience, you
should all be politicians, as the press
claims | am, for if you are
not. this country will soon be too hot to
hold YOU. Congress should be made up
of working men and farmers, and not OF
lawyers. Lawyers are good enough III
their place, but their place is with the
devil. If YOU get mixed up with law
yerS YOU are sure to lose, for they take
all the meat and leave you the shells.
If YOU have a dispute to settle, better
flip up copper. | have been something
of a politician myself and have worked
for results
AS WELL. AS FOR POSITION.
believe i'll using the Democratic
party i'll the same manner as you would
a donkey. and then use the Republican
party in similar manner. What we,
the labOring people, want first, is com
plete education of the masses. L did
not 90 into the X. of l.. because they
could help me, because they could not;
but | went in because | thought | could
do some good. | have tried always to
be as free as Gods pure air, and so do
not come here as politician, nor as a
Democrat or a Republican, but | am
here to plead the cause of Gods down.
trOdden people.
Here Mr.. Fogg made few remarks,
intending to be sarcastic, in which he
claimed the GLOBE has miSrepreSented
him. but he did not state how. lie then
branched off into a Self-laudatOry strain,
i'll which he paid himself high cOmpll-
ment. and said he, together with the
labOring men of the country, had been
Instrumental in electing Grover Cleve-
land, one of the greatest political accl-
dents the country had ever seen. Il will
not say James q. Blaine is rascal, =" said
he, but do dislike the way in which he
used certain friends of mine i'll
selling them worthless stock" The
speaker next turned his attention to
Grover Cleveland again, and struck out
on subjects which he labOred on until
he got his hearers badly confused. The
flag question he discussed at some
length. and it was inferred from his re-
marks that at one period in his life Mr..
Fogg might have been a rank Copper
head. The speaker picked up the
Bible. which he had brought with him,
and roasted the commission which had
revised the good book. This commits
sion, he said. has tried to strike out all
the punishment for sin,
But WHAT GOOD Is THE BIBLE,
want to know, if it provides no pun
ishment? The land question Mr.. FOgg
referred to. and quoted the Bible to
prove that there should be no perma-
nent ownership of land. More Bible
quotations on various subjects followed,
and the paths started out upon by the
speaker were as varied as the ideas of
the police commission. The landlord
and the uSurer," said Mr.. FOgg, ''are
manufacturing trampS and criminals the
world over. They compel men to COM
nit suicide. and others to burn their
buildings in order to get the insurance.
The system cOrruptS courts, and
is gnawing at the very heartStringS
of American industries. Even now the
farmers daughter is mOrtgaged to the
wooden mills of the East. and the sons
OF foreigners are mOrtgaged to the OWL
ers of the coal mines. History is re-
peatng itself, and in the Olden times
there was the same centraliZatiOn of
property that there is now. We are
only following out the history of ancient
times. and | tell you, unless you educate
the masses your ship of state will soon
go to ruins on the deadly rock of cen
traliZatiOn."
The speaker thought that congress
was very corrupt, and would be so ull-
til there were more labOring men put in
to watch the interests of the country.
The board of trade and other mercantile
interests Mr.. FOgg scored i'll no gentle
language, and said it was only queS-
ton of time when the Lord would re-
buke the ungodly and the seekers after
wealth. The taking of land by railway
companies was denounced as a
wicked steal, and he said that he had
been taught that such was the case by
the Holy Bible He did not think much
of the use of foreign capital here, and
claimed that it drew away from Amer
lea much of the produce needed to pay
the interest Oh the money. The cry of
the people seriously affected by this con-
ditiOn of things is being heard, said lie,
and soon the landlord will have to do as
the Chinaman has dOne-g0. The cap
italists and landlords
ARE ROBBERS AND THIEVES,
I baN-n lppO EpU why | call them
those names. | answer, because they
are. The only difference between the
two great parties is this: One party is
out and the other party is i'll. and the
one that is out wants TO get i'll. There
will be no honesty i'll this country SO
long as the competitive system exists,
and as long as it does exist there will be
strikes and lockoutS. To remedy this
would establish Il grand cooperative
policy, whereby every man could and
would receive the fruits of his laborS. !
believe that the government should OWL
and operate all mines. railroads and the
like. We have no right to grant these
companies franchises, and L, as Il live
man. don't want to be bound to do any
thing by the acts of an old rotten
corpse, which passed away long before
was born. The competitive system
makes Il man dishonest i'll spite of al
that can be uone. Even TIE HoTTlOie
traffic in human beings-yOung girls
is an outcome of the competi
tive system. Now, in regard to the
royal family-there is more rotten blood
in the royal family than there is il
thousands of families of labOring men
/ would not let sister of mine marry q
member OF the royal family for the rea
son that she would be contaminated
The only way to stop crime is to stoI
she increase of population of the big
cities and increase the population of the
country towns more. Mr.. FOgg argued
that the proper thing to do was to re